August 23rd, 2008 posted by Bender Rodríguez
Wherein I detail the series of events that lead me to purchase their album online in mp3 format at amazon.com and their wonderful shopping experience that ensued.
I was listening to The Story this week and I heard a great interview with Rupa Marya, a physician based in San Francisco who leads the musical group the April Fishes. During the interview, she mentioned one of her songs that I thought was called "Joder". I was laughing my butt off, as "joder" is not exactly the type of word that public radio fans would expect to hear over the air waves, even if it is a Spanish word and most listeners would not recognise it. I listened to the song, which has the refrain "si se puede", and which rails against the inequities of US immigration policy, among other things. I thought, what a perfect title for that song, and wanted to buy the album.
I found the Fishes' website and followed a link from it to amazon.com. I could purchase the entire album for 9 bucks, but I would have to install their MP3 downloader software. As I am running Ubuntu, I did not hold out hope for this to work, but gave it a go. To my surprise, amazon provides a Debian installer that works like magic. Within minutes I had the entire album downloaded with one click and I was off and running. Now if only the price for albums were more like a buck. They might actually receive more business from the likes of those of us who find it more economically feasible to download our music using BitTorrent.
In the end, I found out that the song is actually entitled "Poder".
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